1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:08,595 --> 00:00:20,675 Speaker 1: Radio Lynda Haba, Come on down, You're the next contestant 3 00:00:20,755 --> 00:00:27,035 Speaker 1: on You Trusted Trump, Trump's lawyer and spokesmodel, the one 4 00:00:27,075 --> 00:00:30,795 Speaker 1: who couldn't tell the difference between Judge Ryan Hart and actor. 5 00:00:30,875 --> 00:00:35,195 Speaker 1: Judge rein Hold and her law firm were sanctioned nine 6 00:00:35,315 --> 00:00:38,515 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven thousand, nine hundred and eighty nine 7 00:00:38,555 --> 00:00:42,155 Speaker 1: dollars and thirty nine cents by a federal judge in 8 00:00:42,195 --> 00:00:45,675 Speaker 1: Florida last night for being the ones stupid enough to 9 00:00:45,835 --> 00:00:50,275 Speaker 1: file for Donald Trump a frivolous rico lawsuit against Hillary 10 00:00:50,315 --> 00:00:54,755 Speaker 1: Clinton in what was obviously a political stunt. Judge Donald M. 11 00:00:54,755 --> 00:00:58,115 Speaker 1: Middlebrooks rights quote, this case should never have been brought. 12 00:00:58,435 --> 00:01:01,475 Speaker 1: Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. 13 00:01:01,795 --> 00:01:05,035 Speaker 1: No reasonable lawyer would have filed it inten did for 14 00:01:05,075 --> 00:01:08,275 Speaker 1: a political purpose. None of the counts of the amended 15 00:01:08,315 --> 00:01:14,755 Speaker 1: complaint stated a cognizible legal claim. Oh, Elena Habba, you lose, 16 00:01:15,195 --> 00:01:18,435 Speaker 1: like everybody who comes in contact with Trump, he abuses 17 00:01:18,475 --> 00:01:22,035 Speaker 1: the law. But you pay the nine hundred thirty seven thousand, 18 00:01:22,155 --> 00:01:25,795 Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty nine dollars and thirty nine cents. 19 00:01:27,475 --> 00:01:38,835 Speaker 1: Thanks for playing you, trusted Trump, have a nice day. 20 00:01:40,795 --> 00:01:42,675 Speaker 1: I have fallen for it before, and so have you, 21 00:01:42,755 --> 00:01:44,195 Speaker 1: So I am not going to tell you that Trump 22 00:01:44,275 --> 00:01:47,475 Speaker 1: jumped a shark last night. He may now rail against 23 00:01:47,555 --> 00:01:50,955 Speaker 1: Judge Middlebrooks. He may even defend Alena Habba, since the 24 00:01:51,035 --> 00:01:54,155 Speaker 1: judge said the sanction was against Habba and Trump. He 25 00:01:54,235 --> 00:01:57,155 Speaker 1: might even promise to pay half of it, and then 26 00:01:57,195 --> 00:02:01,715 Speaker 1: instead sent her a commemorative Donald Trump Commemorative Presidential pure 27 00:02:01,795 --> 00:02:06,035 Speaker 1: gold trillion dollar commemorative coin suitable for framing. Note. Coin 28 00:02:06,155 --> 00:02:08,235 Speaker 1: is not gold, but made out of compressed bird feces. 29 00:02:08,355 --> 00:02:11,035 Speaker 1: Color of lead paint sprayed on gold. Coin is gold. 30 00:02:11,595 --> 00:02:14,195 Speaker 1: But it didn't happen to him, so one way or 31 00:02:14,195 --> 00:02:18,275 Speaker 1: the other he'll just skate past it. However, Trump did 32 00:02:18,355 --> 00:02:21,995 Speaker 1: seem to hit some kind of wall on social media yesterday. 33 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:25,995 Speaker 1: Quote the fake news says, I am not campaigning very hard. 34 00:02:26,795 --> 00:02:31,875 Speaker 1: I say they are stupid. Oh stupid. You left out 35 00:02:32,115 --> 00:02:35,835 Speaker 1: poopy pants. I say they are stupid and poopy pants 36 00:02:36,475 --> 00:02:40,395 Speaker 1: do not fear many giant rallies and other events coming 37 00:02:40,475 --> 00:02:44,555 Speaker 1: up soon, and then invoking the instruction for his mob 38 00:02:44,635 --> 00:02:46,875 Speaker 1: to come to Washington for the rally and co attempt 39 00:02:46,915 --> 00:02:51,035 Speaker 1: of January six. It will all be wild and exciting. 40 00:02:51,835 --> 00:02:54,435 Speaker 1: But the point of the post was for Trump to 41 00:02:54,555 --> 00:03:00,555 Speaker 1: have to deny he was guilty of being boring. For 42 00:03:00,675 --> 00:03:03,555 Speaker 1: nearly eight years, we have looked for the antidote to Trump, 43 00:03:03,595 --> 00:03:06,475 Speaker 1: the emergency exit, and he just confessed as to what 44 00:03:06,715 --> 00:03:10,075 Speaker 1: it is. He's gotten his role of stamps and begun 45 00:03:10,195 --> 00:03:13,755 Speaker 1: to mail it in the fake news, says I am 46 00:03:13,795 --> 00:03:17,675 Speaker 1: not campaigning very hard. He is clearly terrified of being 47 00:03:17,715 --> 00:03:22,635 Speaker 1: perceived as boring. He confirmed that in a later diet 48 00:03:22,675 --> 00:03:25,075 Speaker 1: tribe directed against the use of the term big lie, 49 00:03:25,555 --> 00:03:29,035 Speaker 1: and included another threat, and then he seemed to take 50 00:03:29,155 --> 00:03:32,235 Speaker 1: a nap in the middle of his post. First, here's 51 00:03:32,275 --> 00:03:34,875 Speaker 1: the threat. He claimed, it's quote harder and harder to 52 00:03:35,075 --> 00:03:38,995 Speaker 1: use the term big lie anymore. It actually angers people 53 00:03:39,355 --> 00:03:42,195 Speaker 1: to do very bad things. And notice here Trump has 54 00:03:42,275 --> 00:03:47,075 Speaker 1: mistaken the word anger for the word inspire or maybe 55 00:03:47,155 --> 00:03:50,595 Speaker 1: cause inspire or cause them to do very bad things. 56 00:03:50,795 --> 00:03:54,115 Speaker 1: He's claiming if we all keep saying big lie, his 57 00:03:54,235 --> 00:03:57,915 Speaker 1: scum will get violent, quoting again the radical left should 58 00:03:57,915 --> 00:04:00,875 Speaker 1: be careful and its use of that ridiculous term. Then 59 00:04:00,995 --> 00:04:06,635 Speaker 1: a sentence in which he misspells stolen and then anticlimax 60 00:04:07,155 --> 00:04:11,995 Speaker 1: petering out quote. The unselect Committee of political hacks and 61 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:19,275 Speaker 1: thugs refused to discuss it, and so it goes. So 62 00:04:19,395 --> 00:04:25,315 Speaker 1: it goes. Nine most popular phrase for denoting a shrug 63 00:04:25,355 --> 00:04:31,075 Speaker 1: of indifference or acceptance, and emoji in three words that'll 64 00:04:31,115 --> 00:04:34,955 Speaker 1: inspire the cult. So it goes, Beulah, do you see 65 00:04:34,995 --> 00:04:40,955 Speaker 1: my president? He's inspired action America. Let's make new hats Trump. 66 00:04:43,035 --> 00:04:48,155 Speaker 1: So it goes. And if the boring doesn't get Trump, 67 00:04:48,235 --> 00:04:52,035 Speaker 1: it's possible the sloppy will. The Supreme Court has just 68 00:04:52,115 --> 00:04:54,075 Speaker 1: announced it is not able to find out who the 69 00:04:54,155 --> 00:04:57,315 Speaker 1: leaker was on the Roe v. Wade scandal. He also wrote, 70 00:04:57,635 --> 00:05:00,435 Speaker 1: they'll never find out, and it's important that they do. 71 00:05:00,835 --> 00:05:03,795 Speaker 1: So go to the reporter and ask him, slash her 72 00:05:03,915 --> 00:05:06,875 Speaker 1: who it was. If not given the answer, put whoever 73 00:05:07,035 --> 00:05:10,075 Speaker 1: in jail until the answer is given, you might add 74 00:05:10,075 --> 00:05:13,315 Speaker 1: the publisher and editor to the list. Now, from Trump 75 00:05:13,355 --> 00:05:17,355 Speaker 1: World's perspective, that sounds all very nice and above board. 76 00:05:17,835 --> 00:05:22,115 Speaker 1: He suggested this before about reporters, but he's also always 77 00:05:22,155 --> 00:05:25,875 Speaker 1: been very specific. Nothing is general as just referring to 78 00:05:26,555 --> 00:05:30,915 Speaker 1: leakers and put whoever in jail. What Trump has managed 79 00:05:30,955 --> 00:05:33,195 Speaker 1: to do here is to propose simply looking at a 80 00:05:33,235 --> 00:05:38,475 Speaker 1: crime involving government documents or information, finding their recipient, and 81 00:05:38,635 --> 00:05:42,715 Speaker 1: jailing them without indictment, trial or conviction, which you could 82 00:05:42,715 --> 00:05:47,555 Speaker 1: then also do, say in the case of nuclear and 83 00:05:47,595 --> 00:05:51,515 Speaker 1: other top secret documents stolen and found it, say Mari 84 00:05:51,595 --> 00:05:56,195 Speaker 1: Lago with their recipient. For Trump's logic, the next person 85 00:05:56,235 --> 00:05:59,555 Speaker 1: you could go to and ask him her who it was, 86 00:05:59,995 --> 00:06:02,595 Speaker 1: and put whoever in jail until the answer is given. 87 00:06:03,075 --> 00:06:05,635 Speaker 1: The next person you could jail without indictment, trial or 88 00:06:05,635 --> 00:06:12,715 Speaker 1: conviction is Donald Trump. Trump from jail, so it goes. 89 00:06:15,235 --> 00:06:18,875 Speaker 1: What's particularly interesting in this new Trumpian legal or extra 90 00:06:18,955 --> 00:06:23,435 Speaker 1: legal theory just jail suspects and witnesses like Trump, is 91 00:06:23,475 --> 00:06:26,555 Speaker 1: that the case he's referring to had its own extra 92 00:06:26,675 --> 00:06:29,995 Speaker 1: legal twist. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 93 00:06:30,035 --> 00:06:33,675 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court Martial's report had narrowed it down to 94 00:06:33,715 --> 00:06:37,475 Speaker 1: a small number of suspects, including several law clerks, but 95 00:06:37,515 --> 00:06:40,395 Speaker 1: had yet to figure out which one did the leak. 96 00:06:41,355 --> 00:06:44,995 Speaker 1: There was a leak about the investigation of the leak. Yesterday, 97 00:06:45,075 --> 00:06:48,755 Speaker 1: as you know, the Marshal's report was issued, concluding, evidently 98 00:06:48,795 --> 00:06:51,595 Speaker 1: for good that we'll just never know, which is too 99 00:06:51,635 --> 00:06:55,035 Speaker 1: bad because it was probably a crime, which leads to 100 00:06:55,115 --> 00:06:59,235 Speaker 1: the next question which was nearly universally overlooked in the coverage, namely, 101 00:07:00,115 --> 00:07:03,595 Speaker 1: if there was a crime, how come the Supreme Court 102 00:07:03,675 --> 00:07:08,675 Speaker 1: got to investigate it. If there's a crime, well, why 103 00:07:08,875 --> 00:07:12,755 Speaker 1: wasn't the turned over to the FBI or at least 104 00:07:12,755 --> 00:07:14,835 Speaker 1: the local U. S. Attorney or even the d C 105 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:17,795 Speaker 1: Attorney General? Or how about this? If the Supreme Court 106 00:07:17,875 --> 00:07:21,315 Speaker 1: did investigate the Supreme Court and couldn't figure out who 107 00:07:21,315 --> 00:07:25,515 Speaker 1: committed this likely crime and leaked about it, maybe then 108 00:07:25,675 --> 00:07:30,115 Speaker 1: have the FBI or the U. S. Attorney investigate, unless 109 00:07:30,155 --> 00:07:33,955 Speaker 1: you didn't really want to publicly identify the leaker, because 110 00:07:34,035 --> 00:07:38,675 Speaker 1: publicly identifying the leaker in the Supreme Court might cause that, 111 00:07:38,835 --> 00:07:43,595 Speaker 1: I don't know, or force a Supreme Court justice to resign. 112 00:07:44,435 --> 00:07:47,835 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll confess. I spent part of yesterday waiting to 113 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:51,955 Speaker 1: hear that Congressman George Santos had claimed that he had 114 00:07:52,035 --> 00:08:10,915 Speaker 1: leaked it, which reminds me contible drag that I seen 115 00:08:10,995 --> 00:08:14,475 Speaker 1: sixties of the number one hit from the Buckinghams recently 116 00:08:14,515 --> 00:08:18,235 Speaker 1: covered by Congressmen George Santos. Thank you again, Nancy faust. 117 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:23,395 Speaker 1: We must give Santos credit for doing the seemingly impossible. 118 00:08:23,755 --> 00:08:28,555 Speaker 1: Each day he achieves the proverbial new high in low 119 00:08:29,475 --> 00:08:31,795 Speaker 1: for the first time. Yesterday he responded to one of 120 00:08:31,835 --> 00:08:35,355 Speaker 1: the what is it three hundred credible claims out there 121 00:08:35,595 --> 00:08:38,755 Speaker 1: that he's lied about something or altered or omitted something 122 00:08:38,835 --> 00:08:41,475 Speaker 1: from his own life, and the one he picked to 123 00:08:41,515 --> 00:08:46,155 Speaker 1: respond to first quote, the most recent obsession from the 124 00:08:46,155 --> 00:08:49,235 Speaker 1: media claiming that I am a drag queen or quote 125 00:08:49,635 --> 00:08:54,435 Speaker 1: performed as a drag queen is categorically false. Now you'll 126 00:08:54,475 --> 00:08:57,875 Speaker 1: notice that in there there is nothing denying that that 127 00:08:58,035 --> 00:09:00,195 Speaker 1: is him on the videotape from the two thousand eight 128 00:09:00,395 --> 00:09:04,195 Speaker 1: Brazilian Drag Queen Festival, nor denying that that is him 129 00:09:04,195 --> 00:09:05,995 Speaker 1: in the tooth was in an eight photo next to 130 00:09:06,075 --> 00:09:09,875 Speaker 1: Yulo Rochard, or anything denying that he used the name 131 00:09:09,955 --> 00:09:17,195 Speaker 1: Katara Ravash. He denies he is a drag queen is 132 00:09:17,435 --> 00:09:22,355 Speaker 1: as incurrently, and he denies he quote performed as in 133 00:09:22,475 --> 00:09:26,515 Speaker 1: performed past, tense competed in the past and if that 134 00:09:26,595 --> 00:09:29,715 Speaker 1: were not the definition of threading the needle. Two hours 135 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:33,235 Speaker 1: later came the next tweet, the second response, George is 136 00:09:33,275 --> 00:09:36,595 Speaker 1: a little behind on his scandals about the story of 137 00:09:36,595 --> 00:09:40,235 Speaker 1: poor Sapphire the dog. The reports that I would let 138 00:09:40,235 --> 00:09:45,195 Speaker 1: a dog die is shocking and insane. Once again, there's 139 00:09:45,195 --> 00:09:48,835 Speaker 1: no claim of innocence here, just some misdirection the definition 140 00:09:48,915 --> 00:09:53,395 Speaker 1: of a non denial denial. Yeah, those reports are shocking 141 00:09:53,515 --> 00:09:58,475 Speaker 1: and insane, George, as are you. And nowhere does he 142 00:09:58,515 --> 00:10:02,115 Speaker 1: say he didn't do it. And talk about shocking and insane. 143 00:10:02,115 --> 00:10:07,795 Speaker 1: Two sentences later came an insanely Freudian slip. Over the 144 00:10:07,835 --> 00:10:11,435 Speaker 1: past twenty four hours, I have received pictures of dogs 145 00:10:11,475 --> 00:10:17,195 Speaker 1: I helped Reduce throughout the years. Santos later deleted that 146 00:10:17,235 --> 00:10:21,515 Speaker 1: tweet and replaced it with one in which Reduce becomes rescue. 147 00:10:23,035 --> 00:10:27,355 Speaker 1: For this last month, the month of George Santos, I 148 00:10:27,435 --> 00:10:31,195 Speaker 1: have wondered what my late friend and inspiration, another George, 149 00:10:31,395 --> 00:10:35,635 Speaker 1: George Carlin, would have made of him. Probably not much, 150 00:10:35,675 --> 00:10:38,515 Speaker 1: to be honest, George probably would not have been surprised, 151 00:10:39,035 --> 00:10:42,315 Speaker 1: but I invoked him and there he appeared. In one 152 00:10:42,395 --> 00:10:47,155 Speaker 1: final story. We learned yesterday that three active service Marines 153 00:10:47,275 --> 00:10:51,075 Speaker 1: working in intelligence were among those who stormed the capital 154 00:10:51,195 --> 00:10:54,475 Speaker 1: during the coup attempt. They were identified from a social 155 00:10:54,515 --> 00:10:57,635 Speaker 1: media post made by one of them. They were arrested Wednesday. 156 00:10:57,635 --> 00:11:01,675 Speaker 1: It was revealed yesterday in an Instagram chat. One of them, 157 00:11:01,715 --> 00:11:06,515 Speaker 1: Micah Kumer, told another participant quote, everything in this country 158 00:11:06,635 --> 00:11:10,995 Speaker 1: is corrupt. We honestly need a fresh restart. I'm waiting 159 00:11:11,115 --> 00:11:16,955 Speaker 1: for the boogaloo. What the other person asked, is a buggaloo? 160 00:11:17,715 --> 00:11:27,595 Speaker 1: Kumer answered? Civil War two? Uh, civil war to electric boogaloo. 161 00:11:28,675 --> 00:11:33,435 Speaker 1: This marine Kumar was not just in intelligence. He was 162 00:11:33,475 --> 00:11:38,395 Speaker 1: a systems engineer in marine intelligence and reconnaissance systems. And 163 00:11:38,595 --> 00:11:41,675 Speaker 1: I know I'll sleep better in my bed tonight knowing 164 00:11:41,915 --> 00:11:47,955 Speaker 1: that such heroes are protecting us here in America. Of course, 165 00:11:47,955 --> 00:11:51,475 Speaker 1: I'll only sleep for about eight minutes. But still, and yes, 166 00:11:51,555 --> 00:11:54,995 Speaker 1: the arrests prove once again that besides what little George 167 00:11:55,035 --> 00:11:57,755 Speaker 1: Carlin did not see and a sail in his lifetime, 168 00:11:58,595 --> 00:12:02,675 Speaker 1: everything else he saw coming after he ditched the suit 169 00:12:02,835 --> 00:12:06,635 Speaker 1: and tie and the CBS Summer Placement TV series. One 170 00:12:06,635 --> 00:12:13,115 Speaker 1: of George's first true insurrectionist observations was the term jumbo shrimp. 171 00:12:13,155 --> 00:12:17,355 Speaker 1: Has always amazed me. What is a jumbo shrimp? I mean, 172 00:12:18,595 --> 00:12:36,275 Speaker 1: it's like military intelligence. Of course, Grout show Marks seems 173 00:12:36,275 --> 00:12:39,595 Speaker 1: to have brought up the oxy moron military intelligence a 174 00:12:39,635 --> 00:12:42,555 Speaker 1: little bit before George did, and so did Senator Sam 175 00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:47,395 Speaker 1: Irvine of Watergate Committee fame. But in and there was 176 00:12:47,395 --> 00:12:50,515 Speaker 1: a British World War One general who was apparently the 177 00:12:50,555 --> 00:12:56,195 Speaker 1: first to use it, and also doctor who Stella had 178 00:12:56,235 --> 00:12:59,115 Speaker 1: that Pride Night disaster. In the National Hockey League, the 179 00:12:59,115 --> 00:13:02,515 Speaker 1: team has doubled down to defend the guy who hid 180 00:13:02,555 --> 00:13:07,555 Speaker 1: behind his homophobic pro putin religion. Rare bipartisanship from the 181 00:13:07,555 --> 00:13:11,755 Speaker 1: Worst Person's Committee, a Republican governor and a Democratic governor 182 00:13:11,915 --> 00:13:15,875 Speaker 1: make it this time and Fridays with Thurber of spies 183 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:19,995 Speaker 1: and string beans and falling asleep on the train the 184 00:13:20,115 --> 00:13:24,155 Speaker 1: lady on one four two, that's next. This is Countdown. 185 00:13:30,475 --> 00:13:37,195 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith old Woman and still ahead 186 00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:41,395 Speaker 1: on Countdown. When sports outfits do not address controversies caused 187 00:13:41,395 --> 00:13:45,675 Speaker 1: by religious bigots in their employ this is what happens. 188 00:13:46,275 --> 00:13:50,435 Speaker 1: And BC Sports has another Tony Dungee controversy, and the 189 00:13:50,595 --> 00:13:54,875 Speaker 1: NHL has another day of itself created. No hockey isn't 190 00:13:54,915 --> 00:13:58,715 Speaker 1: for everyone, after all, is it? Controversy? First? In each 191 00:13:58,795 --> 00:14:00,795 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need you 192 00:14:00,835 --> 00:14:03,595 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day the New York 193 00:14:03,595 --> 00:14:07,275 Speaker 1: City Pound is Jay and yet again Uptown a pity 194 00:14:07,515 --> 00:14:10,315 Speaker 1: arrived there just Wednesday, yet they are already ready to 195 00:14:10,395 --> 00:14:13,355 Speaker 1: kill him as soon as tomorrow. This is the excuse. 196 00:14:13,955 --> 00:14:17,355 Speaker 1: His humans dumped in there to die because they were 197 00:14:17,395 --> 00:14:20,475 Speaker 1: moving new place. They say no pets allowed. So Uptown, 198 00:14:20,555 --> 00:14:23,315 Speaker 1: thanks for four years of love and friendship. You're dead 199 00:14:24,555 --> 00:14:27,835 Speaker 1: at age four. He's terrified and alone and nobody's expecting 200 00:14:27,875 --> 00:14:30,035 Speaker 1: him to be adopted and going a nice walk this 201 00:14:30,115 --> 00:14:33,195 Speaker 1: afternoon with the kids. But he lived without incident with 202 00:14:33,235 --> 00:14:36,555 Speaker 1: a family for four years. He's clearly not untrainable. What 203 00:14:36,595 --> 00:14:39,155 Speaker 1: we need is pledges to defray the costs of a 204 00:14:39,195 --> 00:14:42,515 Speaker 1: rescue outfit taking him and retraining him and finding him 205 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:44,955 Speaker 1: a home, which will be a lot easier if he's 206 00:14:44,995 --> 00:14:48,195 Speaker 1: not dead. You're living in terror that the humans around 207 00:14:48,235 --> 00:14:50,875 Speaker 1: him are about to kill him. You can find Uptown 208 00:14:50,915 --> 00:14:54,155 Speaker 1: on my Twitter feed. Pledge if you can retweet. If 209 00:14:54,195 --> 00:15:10,995 Speaker 1: you can't, I thank you, and Uptown thanks you. This 210 00:15:11,675 --> 00:15:17,955 Speaker 1: is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This is 211 00:15:18,755 --> 00:15:23,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alberan in Sports. It had been a 212 00:15:23,675 --> 00:15:27,195 Speaker 1: while since NBC Sports, another one of my alma maters, 213 00:15:27,275 --> 00:15:31,195 Speaker 1: had its work overshadowed by a Tony Dungee controversy. Then 214 00:15:31,395 --> 00:15:34,555 Speaker 1: Wednesday Morning, the Football Night in America, analyst and former 215 00:15:34,595 --> 00:15:39,115 Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts head coach tweeted, some school districts are putting 216 00:15:39,155 --> 00:15:42,635 Speaker 1: litter boxes in the school bathrooms for students who identify 217 00:15:42,755 --> 00:15:47,755 Speaker 1: as cats. Very important to address every student's needs. I 218 00:15:47,795 --> 00:15:50,275 Speaker 1: worked with Dungee at NBC, and while he tended to 219 00:15:50,355 --> 00:15:54,315 Speaker 1: leave his very bizarre beliefs outside the studio, he was 220 00:15:54,515 --> 00:15:59,155 Speaker 1: uniformly condescending and holier than now and outside of football topics, 221 00:15:59,435 --> 00:16:03,795 Speaker 1: just not bright. The litter box story, of course, has 222 00:16:03,835 --> 00:16:07,635 Speaker 1: been debunked. Do those people who needed it debunked? Those 223 00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:10,955 Speaker 1: people with i q s under seventy five? Joe Rogan, 224 00:16:11,075 --> 00:16:16,035 Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert, Tony Dungee who believed it. It's origins also 225 00:16:16,115 --> 00:16:19,675 Speaker 1: are tragic. In the Colorado school district in which Columbine 226 00:16:19,755 --> 00:16:24,035 Speaker 1: is located, they do keep cat litter in some classrooms 227 00:16:24,075 --> 00:16:28,755 Speaker 1: there for the kids in case the kids are stuck 228 00:16:28,755 --> 00:16:33,035 Speaker 1: in the classrooms during another mass shooting. Tony Dungee has 229 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:35,995 Speaker 1: now deleted his tweet. Now it is time for NBC, 230 00:16:36,155 --> 00:16:39,475 Speaker 1: which has seen Dungee slam a gay football player as 231 00:16:39,515 --> 00:16:43,955 Speaker 1: a quote distraction, railed against same sex parenting, and mocked 232 00:16:43,995 --> 00:16:46,515 Speaker 1: people who suggested that if there is a god, maybe 233 00:16:46,555 --> 00:16:49,755 Speaker 1: it's a woman. It's time for NBC to delete Tony 234 00:16:49,835 --> 00:16:54,275 Speaker 1: Dungee's contract, because, as NBC Sports already knows, and the 235 00:16:54,355 --> 00:16:56,915 Speaker 1: National Hockey League may be about to find out, if 236 00:16:56,915 --> 00:16:59,275 Speaker 1: you let a controversy fest year, it will soon take 237 00:16:59,315 --> 00:17:04,155 Speaker 1: over your entire reputation. In many eyes, NBC's Football Night 238 00:17:04,235 --> 00:17:08,795 Speaker 1: in America KA is Tony Dungee's bigotry, and then some games, 239 00:17:09,555 --> 00:17:13,835 Speaker 1: the NHL may soon become its Disaster of Philadelphia Pride 240 00:17:13,955 --> 00:17:17,235 Speaker 1: Night and nothing else, and may earn that title the 241 00:17:17,315 --> 00:17:23,115 Speaker 1: National Hypocrisy League. The Philadelphia coach John Tortorella yesterday doubled 242 00:17:23,155 --> 00:17:25,555 Speaker 1: down on his defense of a player who hid behind 243 00:17:25,635 --> 00:17:29,995 Speaker 1: his violent, homophobic religion as an excuse for refusing to 244 00:17:30,155 --> 00:17:34,115 Speaker 1: join his teammates in a pregame skate wearing uniforms that 245 00:17:34,155 --> 00:17:38,035 Speaker 1: bore no reference to Pride Night, no reference to gay people, 246 00:17:38,355 --> 00:17:41,515 Speaker 1: no reference to tolerance, nor anything different than the usual 247 00:17:41,635 --> 00:17:45,355 Speaker 1: uniform except that the letters of their names and numerals 248 00:17:45,475 --> 00:17:49,755 Speaker 1: of their uniform numbers were in rainbow rather than in white. 249 00:17:50,915 --> 00:17:54,475 Speaker 1: The player's name is Ivan Probarov, and he said his religion, 250 00:17:54,555 --> 00:17:57,875 Speaker 1: Russian Orthodox, was why he refused to wear the uniform 251 00:17:57,915 --> 00:18:01,395 Speaker 1: for ten minutes. That he respects everyone's choice and this 252 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:05,115 Speaker 1: was his choice. Pro Vy did nothing wrong, said the 253 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:08,835 Speaker 1: coach Tortorella yesterday, his second day defending him. Just because 254 00:18:08,875 --> 00:18:11,275 Speaker 1: you don't agree with his decision doesn't mean he did 255 00:18:11,315 --> 00:18:14,635 Speaker 1: anything wrong. Proby is not out there banging a drum 256 00:18:14,675 --> 00:18:18,155 Speaker 1: against Pride Night. I respect the organization how they handled 257 00:18:18,155 --> 00:18:20,755 Speaker 1: themselves here, because they went about their business and I 258 00:18:20,795 --> 00:18:24,635 Speaker 1: thought it was a great night Pride Night. Unfortunately, the 259 00:18:24,715 --> 00:18:28,075 Speaker 1: religion that Provof used as his excuse for this is 260 00:18:28,355 --> 00:18:32,875 Speaker 1: in fact banging a drum, and specifically against Pride Night. 261 00:18:33,355 --> 00:18:37,835 Speaker 1: Its leaders have openly and recently encouraged Russia's attack on 262 00:18:37,995 --> 00:18:41,955 Speaker 1: Ukraine and specifically cited as an excuse for it the 263 00:18:42,035 --> 00:18:47,355 Speaker 1: fact that Ukraine has Pride parades. Russian Orthodox is a 264 00:18:47,435 --> 00:18:52,475 Speaker 1: homophobic religion. It is utterly politic, it is utterly dedicated 265 00:18:52,515 --> 00:18:56,155 Speaker 1: to maintaining the Russian dictatorship of Vladimir Putin, and it 266 00:18:56,275 --> 00:19:00,515 Speaker 1: is utterly dedicated to bombing Ukrainian civilians in their homes 267 00:19:00,875 --> 00:19:04,475 Speaker 1: because they do things like Pride night, which Ivan pro 268 00:19:04,675 --> 00:19:10,915 Speaker 1: are Off refused to participate in for religious reasons. This 269 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:14,675 Speaker 1: seems open and shut. The shut part should be coached 270 00:19:14,715 --> 00:19:18,075 Speaker 1: John Tortorella's big mouth. He either does not know about 271 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:22,235 Speaker 1: Provo's religion's choice on the subject of killing people who 272 00:19:22,315 --> 00:19:25,275 Speaker 1: support the l g b t Q community and invading 273 00:19:25,315 --> 00:19:28,275 Speaker 1: their country, or he doesn't care about it and the 274 00:19:28,435 --> 00:19:32,115 Speaker 1: NHL had better step in. Or It's Philadelphia franchise, which 275 00:19:32,115 --> 00:19:35,715 Speaker 1: has not been competitive for oh forty seven seasons, will 276 00:19:35,795 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: become known for this and only this, and the National 277 00:19:39,515 --> 00:19:43,235 Speaker 1: Hypocrisy League will have earned itself an even rougher new 278 00:19:43,355 --> 00:20:02,555 Speaker 1: name for that acronym, the National Homophobia League. Coming up 279 00:20:02,595 --> 00:20:08,555 Speaker 1: Fridays with Ferber's Suspense, Mystery Spies and what Happens when 280 00:20:08,595 --> 00:20:14,035 Speaker 1: You Fall Asleep on a Train Lady on one for two. First, 281 00:20:14,035 --> 00:20:16,675 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Krueger 282 00:20:16,715 --> 00:20:21,955 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's most persons in the world, 283 00:20:22,875 --> 00:20:29,195 Speaker 1: le Bronze our latest New York Governor, Kathy Hokel. What 284 00:20:29,235 --> 00:20:31,995 Speaker 1: do you do when you barely win election as a 285 00:20:32,035 --> 00:20:35,155 Speaker 1: Democrat in a heavily democratic state. You stick with the 286 00:20:35,155 --> 00:20:37,715 Speaker 1: Democrats who voted you in and try to bring back 287 00:20:37,755 --> 00:20:40,595 Speaker 1: the ones who sensed you were a disloyal fraud. Not 288 00:20:41,035 --> 00:20:44,275 Speaker 1: if you're Kathy Hokel. The state needs a new chief 289 00:20:44,395 --> 00:20:47,315 Speaker 1: Judge of the Court of Appeals, so naturally, the governor 290 00:20:47,395 --> 00:20:52,515 Speaker 1: chose Hector LaSalle, who has carefully built himself a reputation 291 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:57,075 Speaker 1: as anti union and anti abortion. A state Senate committee 292 00:20:57,115 --> 00:20:59,715 Speaker 1: had to approve Lassal's nomination before it moved to a 293 00:20:59,795 --> 00:21:03,075 Speaker 1: vote by the full New York State Senate. It did 294 00:21:03,075 --> 00:21:06,555 Speaker 1: not approve it. It voted ten to nine against LaSalle. 295 00:21:06,915 --> 00:21:09,995 Speaker 1: The nine yes votes were from Republicans that tend no 296 00:21:10,195 --> 00:21:13,355 Speaker 1: votes were from Democrats. The Democrats are in charge in 297 00:21:13,395 --> 00:21:16,795 Speaker 1: New York State. So what did the governor, a Democrat, do, 298 00:21:16,915 --> 00:21:19,875 Speaker 1: when the members of her own party were emphatically telling 299 00:21:19,875 --> 00:21:25,835 Speaker 1: her she had screwed up. Nominate somebody else, a liberal moderate. No, 300 00:21:26,155 --> 00:21:30,155 Speaker 1: she says she may go to court to sue the 301 00:21:30,235 --> 00:21:34,835 Speaker 1: Senate to bypass the Senate committee and force a vote 302 00:21:34,915 --> 00:21:39,715 Speaker 1: by the full Senate on her judge. This guy LaSalle 303 00:21:41,435 --> 00:21:44,995 Speaker 1: prediction Governor Hokel will not finish her term. She's not 304 00:21:45,075 --> 00:21:49,755 Speaker 1: being bipartisan, she's being ignorant. Runner up Florida Governor Ron 305 00:21:49,755 --> 00:21:52,235 Speaker 1: de Santis his state director of Education, who is not 306 00:21:52,395 --> 00:21:55,995 Speaker 1: the religious nut you saw Viraly who told Floridians to 307 00:21:56,035 --> 00:22:02,755 Speaker 1: fight COVID not with vaccines but by asking. The director 308 00:22:02,755 --> 00:22:04,835 Speaker 1: of Education has told high schools to not all for 309 00:22:04,995 --> 00:22:10,275 Speaker 1: advanced placement courses in African American studies because the course 310 00:22:10,515 --> 00:22:14,515 Speaker 1: is not quote historically accurate and adds it is not 311 00:22:14,715 --> 00:22:20,315 Speaker 1: really educational and adds teaching it violates state's law. Now 312 00:22:20,315 --> 00:22:22,795 Speaker 1: why would he do that? Because the Santis is a 313 00:22:22,835 --> 00:22:25,795 Speaker 1: white supremacist and a fascist. You want a second opinion. 314 00:22:26,075 --> 00:22:29,875 Speaker 1: He also doesn't own one suit that actually fits him. 315 00:22:29,915 --> 00:22:34,035 Speaker 1: But the winner The New York Times once again it's 316 00:22:34,035 --> 00:22:37,035 Speaker 1: as if the editors think there's a both sides is 317 00:22:37,115 --> 00:22:40,515 Speaker 1: um and what about is um shortage and they have 318 00:22:40,755 --> 00:22:45,035 Speaker 1: an exclusive stash of both. A reminder that about a 319 00:22:45,115 --> 00:22:49,675 Speaker 1: quarter of all American debt was accrued under Trump's Republican presidency. 320 00:22:49,755 --> 00:22:53,795 Speaker 1: Yet now the Republicans want to renege on all American 321 00:22:53,875 --> 00:22:57,635 Speaker 1: debt and you know, crash the world economy by not 322 00:22:57,795 --> 00:23:02,915 Speaker 1: raising the debt ceiling. And Democrats are you know, trying 323 00:23:02,915 --> 00:23:07,555 Speaker 1: to stop that, stop a world depression, stop a stock 324 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:10,835 Speaker 1: market from crashing. Well, how did the Times treat this 325 00:23:11,115 --> 00:23:16,715 Speaker 1: seemingly stark contrast quote breaking news? The paper tweeted on 326 00:23:16,755 --> 00:23:19,635 Speaker 1: its main account, the US has hit its debt limit, 327 00:23:20,115 --> 00:23:23,275 Speaker 1: raising economic fears and setting the stage for months of 328 00:23:24,715 --> 00:23:32,915 Speaker 1: entrenched partisan warfare. The New York Times all the what 329 00:23:33,075 --> 00:23:37,715 Speaker 1: about is m that's fit to print? Two days? Worst 330 00:23:38,555 --> 00:23:43,795 Speaker 1: person's enough, Let's get a second opinion on this. What 331 00:23:49,395 --> 00:23:59,315 Speaker 1: in this Ohio diner to the number one story on 332 00:23:59,355 --> 00:24:02,235 Speaker 1: the countdown? And it is Friday's with Thurber? And thus 333 00:24:02,235 --> 00:24:05,075 Speaker 1: the number one story in the countdown is Friday's with 334 00:24:05,315 --> 00:24:09,275 Speaker 1: James Thurber. Many of the great writers great stories, the 335 00:24:09,275 --> 00:24:12,915 Speaker 1: short stories, the fables have great meaning where symbolism, and 336 00:24:12,995 --> 00:24:15,435 Speaker 1: some of them are just great fun. Let me give 337 00:24:15,475 --> 00:24:19,395 Speaker 1: you one of the latter from the Thurber Carnival. It 338 00:24:19,435 --> 00:24:23,435 Speaker 1: will explain itself fairly quickly. The Lady on One for 339 00:24:23,755 --> 00:24:29,795 Speaker 1: two by James Thurber. The train was twenty minutes late, 340 00:24:30,035 --> 00:24:32,235 Speaker 1: we found out when we bought our tickets. So we 341 00:24:32,315 --> 00:24:34,515 Speaker 1: sat down on a bench in the little waiting room 342 00:24:34,555 --> 00:24:38,555 Speaker 1: of the Cornwall Bridge station. It was too hot outside 343 00:24:38,555 --> 00:24:41,875 Speaker 1: in the sun. This Midsummer Saturday had got off to 344 00:24:41,915 --> 00:24:45,115 Speaker 1: a sulky start. And now at three in the afternoon, 345 00:24:45,155 --> 00:24:51,435 Speaker 1: it's sacked, sticky and restive. In our laps. There were 346 00:24:51,475 --> 00:24:54,595 Speaker 1: several others besides Sylvia and myself, waiting for the train 347 00:24:54,675 --> 00:24:58,035 Speaker 1: to get in from Pittsfield. An older woman who fanned 348 00:24:58,035 --> 00:25:01,275 Speaker 1: herself with a daily news, a young lady in her 349 00:25:01,275 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: twenties reading a book. Slender tanned man sucking dreamily on 350 00:25:06,235 --> 00:25:09,515 Speaker 1: the stem of an unlighted pipe. In the center of 351 00:25:09,555 --> 00:25:12,835 Speaker 1: the room, leaning against a high iron radiator. A small 352 00:25:13,035 --> 00:25:16,435 Speaker 1: girl stared at each of us in turn, her mouth 353 00:25:16,595 --> 00:25:21,555 Speaker 1: open as if she had never seen people before. The 354 00:25:21,595 --> 00:25:24,835 Speaker 1: place had the familiar pleasant smell of railroad stations in 355 00:25:24,835 --> 00:25:29,035 Speaker 1: the country, something compounded of wood and leather and smoke. 356 00:25:29,915 --> 00:25:33,035 Speaker 1: In the cramped space behind the ticket window, a telegraph 357 00:25:33,155 --> 00:25:36,915 Speaker 1: instrument clicked intermittently, and once or twice a phone rang, 358 00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:40,555 Speaker 1: and the station master answered it briefly. I couldn't hear 359 00:25:40,595 --> 00:25:43,475 Speaker 1: what he said. I was glad on such a day 360 00:25:43,515 --> 00:25:45,835 Speaker 1: that we were going only as far as gay Lordsville, 361 00:25:46,315 --> 00:25:49,635 Speaker 1: the third stop down the line, twenty two minutes away. 362 00:25:49,835 --> 00:25:52,395 Speaker 1: The station master had told us that our tickets were 363 00:25:52,395 --> 00:25:55,035 Speaker 1: the first tickets to gay lords Bill he had ever sold. 364 00:25:56,115 --> 00:25:59,515 Speaker 1: I was idly pondering this small distinction. When a train 365 00:25:59,555 --> 00:26:03,395 Speaker 1: whistle blew in the distance. We all got to our feet, 366 00:26:03,435 --> 00:26:05,635 Speaker 1: but the station master came out of his cubby hole 367 00:26:05,675 --> 00:26:07,755 Speaker 1: and told us it was not our train, but the 368 00:26:07,795 --> 00:26:12,075 Speaker 1: twelve forty five from New York northbound. Presently, the train 369 00:26:12,155 --> 00:26:15,515 Speaker 1: thundered in like a hurricane and sighed ponderously to a stop. 370 00:26:16,115 --> 00:26:18,715 Speaker 1: The station master went out into the platform and came back. 371 00:26:18,755 --> 00:26:21,715 Speaker 1: After a minute or two, the train got heavily under 372 00:26:21,755 --> 00:26:25,595 Speaker 1: way again for Canaan. I was opening a pack of 373 00:26:25,675 --> 00:26:28,355 Speaker 1: cigarettes when I heard the station master talking on the 374 00:26:28,395 --> 00:26:33,675 Speaker 1: phone again. This time his words came out clearly. He 375 00:26:33,875 --> 00:26:40,475 Speaker 1: kept repeating one sentence. He was saying, Conductor Reagan on 376 00:26:40,475 --> 00:26:45,235 Speaker 1: one four two, has the lady the office was talking about. 377 00:26:46,835 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: The person on the other end of the line did 378 00:26:48,355 --> 00:26:50,395 Speaker 1: not appear to get the meaning of the sentence. The 379 00:26:50,475 --> 00:26:54,835 Speaker 1: station master repeated it and hung up. For some reason. 380 00:26:55,195 --> 00:26:59,915 Speaker 1: I figured that he did not understand it either. Sylvia's 381 00:26:59,955 --> 00:27:02,835 Speaker 1: eyes had the lost reflective look they wear when she's 382 00:27:02,835 --> 00:27:05,795 Speaker 1: trying to remember in what box she packed. The Christmas 383 00:27:05,795 --> 00:27:09,595 Speaker 1: tree ornaments. The expressions on the faces of the older woman, 384 00:27:09,675 --> 00:27:11,915 Speaker 1: the young lady, and the man with the pipe had 385 00:27:11,955 --> 00:27:17,075 Speaker 1: not changed. The little staring girl had gone away. Our 386 00:27:17,195 --> 00:27:19,115 Speaker 1: train was not due for another five minutes, and I 387 00:27:19,155 --> 00:27:22,075 Speaker 1: sat back and began trying to reconstruct the lady on 388 00:27:22,075 --> 00:27:27,235 Speaker 1: one four two the lady conductor Reagan had the lady 389 00:27:27,315 --> 00:27:31,755 Speaker 1: the office was asking about. I moved nearer to Sylvia 390 00:27:32,195 --> 00:27:36,915 Speaker 1: and whispered, see if the trains are numbered in your 391 00:27:36,955 --> 00:27:40,435 Speaker 1: time table. She got the timetable out of her handbag 392 00:27:40,475 --> 00:27:44,555 Speaker 1: and looked at it. One forty two, she said, is 393 00:27:44,595 --> 00:27:48,235 Speaker 1: the twelve forty five from New York. This was the 394 00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:50,475 Speaker 1: train that had gone by a few minutes before the 395 00:27:50,515 --> 00:27:54,035 Speaker 1: woman was taken sick, said Sylvia. They're probably arranging to 396 00:27:54,075 --> 00:27:57,715 Speaker 1: have a doctor or her family meet her. The older 397 00:27:57,715 --> 00:28:00,115 Speaker 1: woman looked around at her briefly. The young woman who 398 00:28:00,155 --> 00:28:02,635 Speaker 1: had been chewing gum stopped chewing. The man with the 399 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:07,475 Speaker 1: pipe seemed oblivious. I lighted a cigarette and sat thinking. 400 00:28:08,195 --> 00:28:11,675 Speaker 1: The woman on one for two, I said to Sylvia 401 00:28:11,835 --> 00:28:17,755 Speaker 1: flatly might be almost anything, but she is definitely not sick. 402 00:28:19,595 --> 00:28:21,355 Speaker 1: The only person who did not stare at me was 403 00:28:21,395 --> 00:28:25,155 Speaker 1: the man with the pipe. Sylvia gave me her temperature, 404 00:28:25,235 --> 00:28:29,395 Speaker 1: taking look across between anxiety and vexation. Just then our 405 00:28:29,435 --> 00:28:32,075 Speaker 1: train whistled and we all stood up. I picked up 406 00:28:32,075 --> 00:28:34,555 Speaker 1: our two bags, and Sylvia took the sack of spring 407 00:28:34,635 --> 00:28:38,075 Speaker 1: beans we had picked up for the connals. When the 408 00:28:38,115 --> 00:28:42,115 Speaker 1: train came clanking in, I said in Sylvia's ear, he'll 409 00:28:42,195 --> 00:28:47,475 Speaker 1: sit near us. You watch who who will? She said, 410 00:28:48,515 --> 00:28:51,715 Speaker 1: the stranger? I told her, the man with the pipe. 411 00:28:52,915 --> 00:28:56,475 Speaker 1: Sylvia laughed, He's not a stranger, She said, he works 412 00:28:56,515 --> 00:28:59,995 Speaker 1: for the breeds. I was certainly that he did not 413 00:29:00,395 --> 00:29:03,715 Speaker 1: work for the breeds. Women like to place people. Every 414 00:29:03,715 --> 00:29:07,995 Speaker 1: stranger reminds of a somebody. The man with the pipe 415 00:29:08,035 --> 00:29:11,075 Speaker 1: was sitting three seats in front of us, across the aisle. 416 00:29:11,115 --> 00:29:14,195 Speaker 1: When we got settled, I indicated him with a nod 417 00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:17,395 Speaker 1: of my head. Sylvia took a book out of the 418 00:29:17,395 --> 00:29:19,835 Speaker 1: top of her overnight bag and opened it. What's the 419 00:29:19,915 --> 00:29:24,435 Speaker 1: matter with you, she demanded. I looked around before replying. 420 00:29:25,355 --> 00:29:27,955 Speaker 1: A sleepy man and woman sat across from us. Two 421 00:29:28,195 --> 00:29:30,355 Speaker 1: middle aged women in the seat in front of us 422 00:29:30,395 --> 00:29:34,155 Speaker 1: were discussing the severe griping pain one of them had 423 00:29:34,195 --> 00:29:40,635 Speaker 1: experienced as a result of inflamed diverticulitis. A slim, dark 424 00:29:41,035 --> 00:29:44,315 Speaker 1: eyed young woman sat in the seat behind us, she 425 00:29:44,555 --> 00:29:48,995 Speaker 1: was alone. The trouble with women, I began, is that 426 00:29:49,035 --> 00:29:52,995 Speaker 1: they explain everything by illness. I have a theory that 427 00:29:53,115 --> 00:29:55,595 Speaker 1: we could be celebrating the twelfth of May, or even 428 00:29:55,635 --> 00:29:59,235 Speaker 1: the sixteenth of April as Independence Day if Mrs Jefferson 429 00:29:59,595 --> 00:30:02,275 Speaker 1: hadn't got the idea. Her husband had a fever and 430 00:30:02,355 --> 00:30:06,635 Speaker 1: put him to bed. Sylvia found her place in the book. 431 00:30:06,835 --> 00:30:11,755 Speaker 1: We've been all through that before. She said, why couldn't 432 00:30:11,795 --> 00:30:16,235 Speaker 1: the woman on one forty two be sick? That was easy, 433 00:30:16,475 --> 00:30:19,955 Speaker 1: I told her. Conductor Reagan, I said, got off the 434 00:30:20,035 --> 00:30:23,475 Speaker 1: train at Cornwall Bridge and spoke to the station master. 435 00:30:24,235 --> 00:30:28,115 Speaker 1: I've got the woman the office was asking about, he said. 436 00:30:29,075 --> 00:30:33,155 Speaker 1: Sylvia cut in. He said, lady, I gave the little 437 00:30:33,235 --> 00:30:38,715 Speaker 1: laugh that annoys her. All conductors, say, lady, I explained, Now, 438 00:30:38,755 --> 00:30:41,315 Speaker 1: if a woman had got sick on the train, Reagan 439 00:30:41,395 --> 00:30:44,155 Speaker 1: would have said, a woman got sick on my train. 440 00:30:44,275 --> 00:30:48,155 Speaker 1: Tell the office. What must have happened is that Reagan 441 00:30:48,275 --> 00:30:52,235 Speaker 1: found somewhere between Kent and Cornwall Bridge a woman the 442 00:30:52,355 --> 00:30:57,475 Speaker 1: office had been looking for. Sylvia did not close her book, 443 00:30:57,515 --> 00:31:00,995 Speaker 1: but she looked up. Maybe she got sick before she 444 00:31:01,075 --> 00:31:04,635 Speaker 1: got on the train, and the office was worried, said Sylvia. 445 00:31:05,755 --> 00:31:08,915 Speaker 1: She was not giving the problem close attention. If the 446 00:31:09,035 --> 00:31:13,155 Speaker 1: office knew she got on the train, I said patiently, 447 00:31:13,395 --> 00:31:16,715 Speaker 1: they wouldn't have asked Reagan to let them know if 448 00:31:16,755 --> 00:31:20,955 Speaker 1: he found her. They would have told him about her 449 00:31:21,235 --> 00:31:26,395 Speaker 1: when she got on. Sylvia resumed her reading. Let's stay 450 00:31:26,395 --> 00:31:28,915 Speaker 1: out of it, she said, it isn't any of our business. 451 00:31:30,515 --> 00:31:34,235 Speaker 1: I hunted for my chicklets but couldn't find them. It 452 00:31:34,395 --> 00:31:41,835 Speaker 1: might be everybody's business, I said, every Patriots I know. 453 00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:46,035 Speaker 1: I know, said Sylvia. You think she's a spy, Well, 454 00:31:46,115 --> 00:31:51,875 Speaker 1: I think she's sick. I ignored that every conductor on 455 00:31:51,875 --> 00:31:54,355 Speaker 1: the line has been asked to look out for her. 456 00:31:54,475 --> 00:31:58,755 Speaker 1: I said, Reagan found her. She won't be met by 457 00:31:58,795 --> 00:32:04,715 Speaker 1: her family. She'll be met by the FBI or the 458 00:32:04,755 --> 00:32:08,955 Speaker 1: O p A, said Sylvia. Alfred Hitchcock. Things don't happen 459 00:32:09,035 --> 00:32:13,235 Speaker 1: on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. I 460 00:32:13,275 --> 00:32:15,515 Speaker 1: saw the conductor coming from the other end of the couch. 461 00:32:15,835 --> 00:32:18,275 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell a conductor, I said that Reagan 462 00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:20,875 Speaker 1: on one for two has got the woman. No you're not, 463 00:32:20,995 --> 00:32:23,435 Speaker 1: said Sylvia, You're not gonna get us and mixed up 464 00:32:23,435 --> 00:32:28,715 Speaker 1: in this He probably knows. Anyway, The conductor, short, stocky, 465 00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:32,795 Speaker 1: silver haired, and silent, took up our tickets. He looked 466 00:32:32,795 --> 00:32:38,195 Speaker 1: like a kindly Ikey's Sylvia, who had stiffened, relaxed when 467 00:32:38,195 --> 00:32:40,395 Speaker 1: I let him go by without a word about the 468 00:32:40,395 --> 00:32:43,955 Speaker 1: woman on one for two. He looks exactly as if 469 00:32:43,955 --> 00:32:46,755 Speaker 1: he knew where the Maltese falcon is hidden, doesn't, he 470 00:32:46,995 --> 00:32:51,475 Speaker 1: said Sylvia, with a laugh that annoys me. Nevertheless, I 471 00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:53,835 Speaker 1: pointed out you said a little while ago that he 472 00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:56,355 Speaker 1: probably knows about the woman on one four two. If 473 00:32:56,395 --> 00:32:59,715 Speaker 1: she's just sick, why should they tell the conductor on 474 00:33:00,035 --> 00:33:04,995 Speaker 1: this train. I'll rest more easily when I know that 475 00:33:05,115 --> 00:33:09,475 Speaker 1: they've actually got her. Sylvia kept reading as if she 476 00:33:09,515 --> 00:33:12,635 Speaker 1: hadn't heard me. I leaned my head against the back 477 00:33:12,635 --> 00:33:16,595 Speaker 1: of the seat and closed my eyes. The train was 478 00:33:16,635 --> 00:33:21,315 Speaker 1: slowing down noisily, and a brakeman was yelling can't, can't. 479 00:33:22,795 --> 00:33:29,075 Speaker 1: When I felt a small, cold pressure against my shoulder. Oh, 480 00:33:29,195 --> 00:33:31,395 Speaker 1: the voice of the woman in the seat behind me said, 481 00:33:31,795 --> 00:33:35,355 Speaker 1: I've dropped my copy of Coronet under your seat. She 482 00:33:35,515 --> 00:33:38,995 Speaker 1: leaned closer and her voice became low and hard. Get 483 00:33:39,035 --> 00:33:43,995 Speaker 1: off here, mr, she said, We're going to Gaylordsville. I said, 484 00:33:44,515 --> 00:33:48,235 Speaker 1: you and your wife are getting off here. Mr. She said. 485 00:33:49,795 --> 00:33:52,155 Speaker 1: I reached for the suitcases on the rack. Why do 486 00:33:52,195 --> 00:33:56,675 Speaker 1: you want for heaven's sake, asked Sylvia, we're getting off here? 487 00:33:56,915 --> 00:34:00,475 Speaker 1: I told her, Are you really crazy? She demanded? This 488 00:34:00,555 --> 00:34:05,035 Speaker 1: is only can't come on, sister, said the woman's voice. 489 00:34:05,435 --> 00:34:08,035 Speaker 1: You take the overnight bag and the beans, you take 490 00:34:08,075 --> 00:34:12,795 Speaker 1: the big bag. Mr. Sylvia was furious. I knew you'd 491 00:34:12,795 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: get us into this, She said to me, shouting about 492 00:34:15,675 --> 00:34:20,075 Speaker 1: spies at the top of your voice. That made me angry. 493 00:34:20,675 --> 00:34:23,715 Speaker 1: You're the one who mentioned spies. I told her I didn't. 494 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:27,515 Speaker 1: He kept talking about it and talking about it, said Sylvia, 495 00:34:28,195 --> 00:34:30,715 Speaker 1: come on, get off. The two of you, said the cold, 496 00:34:30,755 --> 00:34:34,835 Speaker 1: hard voice. We got off. As I helped Sylvia down 497 00:34:34,875 --> 00:34:38,955 Speaker 1: the steps, I said, we know too much. I'll shut up. 498 00:34:39,475 --> 00:34:43,235 Speaker 1: She said. We didn't have far to go. The big 499 00:34:43,275 --> 00:34:46,875 Speaker 1: black limousine waited a few steps away. Behind the wheel 500 00:34:46,955 --> 00:34:51,515 Speaker 1: sat a heavy set foreigner with cruel lips and small eyes. 501 00:34:52,355 --> 00:34:56,155 Speaker 1: He scowled when he saw us. The boss don't want 502 00:34:56,155 --> 00:35:00,355 Speaker 1: nobody up there, he said, it's all right, Carl said 503 00:35:00,395 --> 00:35:03,555 Speaker 1: the woman get in. She told us. We climbed into 504 00:35:03,555 --> 00:35:05,755 Speaker 1: the back seat. She sat between us with the gun 505 00:35:05,835 --> 00:35:11,035 Speaker 1: in her hand. It was a handsome jeweled derringer. Alice, 506 00:35:11,035 --> 00:35:13,835 Speaker 1: will be waiting for us at gay lord's bell, said Sylvia. 507 00:35:14,235 --> 00:35:18,715 Speaker 1: In all this heat. The house was a long, low, 508 00:35:18,875 --> 00:35:22,115 Speaker 1: rambling building reached at the end of a poplar lined drive. 509 00:35:23,035 --> 00:35:26,035 Speaker 1: Never mind the bags, said the woman. Sylvia took the 510 00:35:26,035 --> 00:35:29,235 Speaker 1: string beans and her book and we got out. Two 511 00:35:29,315 --> 00:35:35,115 Speaker 1: huge matstiffs came bounding off the terrace, snarling. Down Mada, 512 00:35:35,235 --> 00:35:40,715 Speaker 1: said the woman. Down pedro. They slunk away, still snarling. 513 00:35:42,235 --> 00:35:44,875 Speaker 1: Sylvia and I sat side by side on a sofa 514 00:35:44,915 --> 00:35:48,235 Speaker 1: in a large, handsomely appointed living room. Across from us, 515 00:35:48,275 --> 00:35:51,155 Speaker 1: in a chair lounged a tall man with heavily lidded 516 00:35:51,235 --> 00:35:55,155 Speaker 1: black eyes and long sensitive fingers. Against the door through 517 00:35:55,155 --> 00:35:58,555 Speaker 1: which we had entered the room leaned a thin, undersized 518 00:35:58,595 --> 00:36:01,035 Speaker 1: young man with his hands in the pockets of his 519 00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:04,115 Speaker 1: coat and a cigarette hanging from his lower lip. He 520 00:36:04,155 --> 00:36:06,955 Speaker 1: had a draw on sallow face, and his small, half 521 00:36:06,995 --> 00:36:11,675 Speaker 1: closed eyes stared at us in curiously. In a corner 522 00:36:11,715 --> 00:36:14,075 Speaker 1: of the room, a squat swarthy man twiddled with the 523 00:36:14,115 --> 00:36:17,475 Speaker 1: dials of a radio. The woman paced up and down, 524 00:36:18,595 --> 00:36:23,795 Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette in a long holder. Well, Gail said 525 00:36:23,835 --> 00:36:26,315 Speaker 1: the lounging man, in a soft voice, to what do 526 00:36:26,355 --> 00:36:33,275 Speaker 1: we owe this unexpected visit? Gail kept pacing. They got Sandra, 527 00:36:33,995 --> 00:36:38,195 Speaker 1: she said. Finally, the lounging man did not change expression. 528 00:36:38,795 --> 00:36:44,715 Speaker 1: Who got Sandra, Gail? He asked softly. Reagan on one 529 00:36:44,795 --> 00:36:49,475 Speaker 1: for two, said Gail. The squat swarthy man jumped to 530 00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:53,195 Speaker 1: his feet. All the time, Egypt say, kiltis Reagan, he 531 00:36:53,275 --> 00:36:56,875 Speaker 1: shouted all the time, Egypt say, bomb off these Reagan. 532 00:36:58,115 --> 00:37:01,555 Speaker 1: The lounging man did not look at him. Sit down, Egypt, 533 00:37:01,835 --> 00:37:05,635 Speaker 1: he said quietly. The swarthy man sat down. Gail went 534 00:37:05,675 --> 00:37:09,795 Speaker 1: on talking. The punk here shot off his mouth. He said, 535 00:37:10,515 --> 00:37:14,635 Speaker 1: he was wise. I looked at the man leaning against 536 00:37:14,635 --> 00:37:21,795 Speaker 1: the door. She means you, said Sylvia, who laughed, Dame 537 00:37:21,955 --> 00:37:24,595 Speaker 1: was dumb. Gail went on. She thought the lady on 538 00:37:24,595 --> 00:37:29,075 Speaker 1: the train was sick. Now, I laughed, she means you, 539 00:37:29,595 --> 00:37:33,235 Speaker 1: I said to Sylvia. The punk was blowing his top 540 00:37:33,275 --> 00:37:35,995 Speaker 1: all over the train, said Gail. I had to bring 541 00:37:36,075 --> 00:37:40,155 Speaker 1: him along. Sylvia, who had the beans on her lap, 542 00:37:40,395 --> 00:37:44,915 Speaker 1: began breaking and stringing them. Well, my dear lady, said 543 00:37:44,955 --> 00:37:50,275 Speaker 1: the lounging man. A most homely little touch was a touch, 544 00:37:50,555 --> 00:37:55,275 Speaker 1: demanded Egypt, touch, I told him. Gail sat down in 545 00:37:55,275 --> 00:37:58,675 Speaker 1: a chair. Who's going to rub him out? She asked. 546 00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:03,555 Speaker 1: Fred Day said the lounging man, Egypt was on his 547 00:38:03,595 --> 00:38:07,355 Speaker 1: feet again. Nah nah, he shouted, not the punk, the 548 00:38:07,555 --> 00:38:11,955 Speaker 1: punk bomp off the last six seven people. The lounging 549 00:38:11,995 --> 00:38:17,195 Speaker 1: man looked at him. Egypt paled and sat down. I 550 00:38:17,275 --> 00:38:20,995 Speaker 1: thought you were the punk, said Sylvia. I looked at 551 00:38:20,995 --> 00:38:25,835 Speaker 1: her coldly. I know where I have seen you before, 552 00:38:26,115 --> 00:38:28,555 Speaker 1: I said to the lounging man. It was at Zagreb 553 00:38:28,675 --> 00:38:33,835 Speaker 1: in Tilden. Took you in straight sets six love six 554 00:38:33,915 --> 00:38:39,275 Speaker 1: love six love. The man's eyes glittered. I think I 555 00:38:39,395 --> 00:38:44,755 Speaker 1: bump off this man myself, he said. Freddy walked over 556 00:38:44,835 --> 00:38:48,795 Speaker 1: and handed the lounging man an automatic. At this moment, 557 00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:52,195 Speaker 1: the door Freddy had been leaning against burst open, and 558 00:38:52,355 --> 00:38:57,515 Speaker 1: in rushed the man with the pipe, shouting Gail, Gail, 559 00:38:58,195 --> 00:39:05,995 Speaker 1: Gail gaylords Vale, Gaylordsville bawled the brakeman. Sylvia was shaking 560 00:39:05,995 --> 00:39:09,595 Speaker 1: me by the arm. Quit mounting, she said, everybody's looking 561 00:39:09,635 --> 00:39:13,515 Speaker 1: at you. I rubbed my forehead with a handkerchief. Hurry up, 562 00:39:13,595 --> 00:39:17,875 Speaker 1: she said. Sylvia said, they don't stop here long, I 563 00:39:17,995 --> 00:39:21,715 Speaker 1: pulled the bags down and we got off. Have you 564 00:39:21,755 --> 00:39:26,875 Speaker 1: got the beans? I asked Sylvia. Alice Connell was waiting 565 00:39:26,875 --> 00:39:29,155 Speaker 1: for us on the way to their home. In the car, 566 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:31,715 Speaker 1: Sylvia began to tell Alice about the woman on one 567 00:39:31,755 --> 00:39:35,875 Speaker 1: for two. I didn't say anything. He thought you as 568 00:39:35,955 --> 00:39:41,675 Speaker 1: a spy, said Sylvia. They both laughed. She'll probably got 569 00:39:41,715 --> 00:39:44,675 Speaker 1: sick on the train, said Alice. They're probably arranging for 570 00:39:44,715 --> 00:39:46,995 Speaker 1: a doctor to meet her at the station. That's just 571 00:39:47,155 --> 00:39:52,275 Speaker 1: what I told him, said Sylvia. I lighted a cigarette. 572 00:39:53,315 --> 00:39:58,235 Speaker 1: The lady on one for two, I said firmly, was 573 00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:07,675 Speaker 1: definitely not sick. Oh, lower, said Sylvia. Here we go again, 574 00:40:09,995 --> 00:40:29,915 Speaker 1: The Lady on one two by James Thurber. Countdown has 575 00:40:29,955 --> 00:40:32,795 Speaker 1: come to you from the studios of Alderman Broadcasting Empire 576 00:40:32,915 --> 00:40:37,195 Speaker 1: World Headquarters in the Sports Capsule Building here in New York. 577 00:40:37,515 --> 00:40:40,475 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of 578 00:40:40,475 --> 00:40:43,235 Speaker 1: the music, including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arraigned, 579 00:40:43,315 --> 00:40:46,715 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle, 580 00:40:46,755 --> 00:40:50,475 Speaker 1: who are the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards 581 00:40:50,515 --> 00:40:54,115 Speaker 1: by John Philip Chanelle. Guitars, bass, and drums by Brian 582 00:40:54,195 --> 00:40:57,915 Speaker 1: Ray produced by t k O Brothers. 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